G'day David,
At 06:13 30/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
>(Or are such scare stories just a way to keep Tax Payers chipping in to
>defence budgets ???)
Just to add my tuppence ha'penny worth...
Sorry you were touched, pleased you were so little affected by the virus.
The Merchants of Chaos will always endeavour to make the environment
more dangerous than it is, so that they can sell another newspaper/obtain
more appropriations etc. but reasons aplenty already exist for us all to be
promoting an effective data insurance program for our clients (and ourselves).
This virus was passed on to me by a local mate (inadvertently) and ever
since his machine has been running dog slow. He was also infected
by a trojan horse that used similar methods to propagate. He has
installed Norman anti-virus software so the risk of anything else passing
through is considerably reduced.
I have been running Zone Alarm ever since the firewall discussion
some time ago and recommended he download and install the same,
which he has.
I also recommended he not network his internet access machine to his
workstation as the potential downside from some attack that slipped past
both the anti-virus software as well as the firewall would be catastrophic,
both in his case as well as mine, maybe yours too.
How often do we end up saying the same things to different clients/
prospects? After a while what we say sounds like a broken record and
just to keep some interest in our lives (or because we forget) we cease
saying the same old things.
There is an almost humerous (if it weren't tragic) expression in the insurance
industry, 'Oh, we tried that and it worked, so we stopped doing it.'
So I don't sound like a broken record I have just starting writing an article,
principally for my clients, detailing the major threats to their data security
as well as the suggested remedies.
(I read an article some time ago now that 90% of business that suffered
a fire did not reopen and of those who did, many were out of business
within 6 months.)
The major threats include:
Power fluctuations
Power failures
Hard drive failures
Hardware theft
Viruses
Hackers
Fire (and other disasters)
and the solutions:
UPS
UPS
RAID card or NAS (Networked Attached Storage) with RAID
Backups
Anti-virus software
Firewalls
Off site backups
I am at the information gathering stage and would appreciate any
data you have that may be useful. Statistics, horror stories, clutches
from the jaws of data death are all invited. I have one or two of my own
but, as usual, the resources of the list are infinitely larger than my own
experiences.
If anyone would like a copy of the article when it is done please email me
privately. If there is any demand to do so I may end up posting it on my
web site so you can refer clients to it to back up your recommendations.
At 06:13 30/06/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Stay Clean and may McAfee be with you.
And you too!
Warmest regards,
Tom Grimshaw
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